Critical Conversations Webcast – Past Episodes

WATCH PAST EPISODES

Episode 6: Dr. Susan Baum
Aired December 16, 2020

Our final episode of the first season of Critical Conversations featured Dr. Susan Baum. Susan Baum is an educator, author, consultant, and Director of the 2e Center for Research and Professional Development. In addition, she is co-director of the International Center for Talent Development, Professor Emeritus at the College of New Rochelle, and serves as the Provost for Bridges Graduate School for Cognitive Diversity in Education. The author of the book To Be Gifted and Learning Disabled, her writing and research cover many areas of education, including differentiated curriculum and instruction, gifted education, gifted/learning-disabled students, and gifted/ underachieving students.

DECEMBER WEBCAST RESOURCES

Episode 5: Dr. Danika Maddocks
Aired November 18, 2020


Our November episode featured Danika Maddocks, who earned her Ph.D. in school psychology from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to her doctoral studies, Danika taught elementary and middle school and earned an MA in developmental psychology at San Francisco State University. Her research interests include intelligence, assessment, students who are gifted or twice-exceptional, and the role of motivation and emotion in teaching and learning. Danika’s clinical experience includes individual, family, and group therapy; school consultation; teacher coaching; and assessment, including collaborative/therapeutic assessment.

NOVEMBER WEBCAST RESOURCES

Episode 4: Dr. Matthew Lerner
Aired October 21, 2020


Our October episode will feature Dr. Matthew Lerner. Matt Lerner is an associate professor of psychology at Stony Brook University. His research focuses on understanding emergence and “real world” implications of social problems in children and adolescents, particularly those with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). He also studies the development, evaluation, and dissemination of novel, evidence-based approaches for ameliorating those problems.

OCTOBER WEBCAST RESOURCES

Please find the resources that were provided in the Zoom chat box below. If there is a resource that you would like to share and have us add to this page, please email info@2ecenter.org

Episode 3: Dr. C. Matthew Fugate
Aired September 16, 2020


Our September episode featured Dr. C. Matthew Fugate of the University of Houston-Downtown. Dr. Fugate received his doctorate in Gifted, Creative, and Talented Studies at Purdue University. His primary area of research is in the identification and servicing of students who are twice-exceptional. He is also part of a federally funded grant looking at the academic effects of the Total School Cluster Grouping Model. Dr. Fugate’s past research has examined the relationship between working memory and levels of creativity in gifted students who have ADHD characteristics. He also examined the coping mechanisms of twice-exceptional girls in secondary school as they navigate both their academic studies and interpersonal relationships. He has presented to parents, teachers, and schools across the United States and internationally.

SEPTEMBER WEBCAST RESOURCES

Please find the resources that were provided in the Zoom chat box below. If there is a resource that you would like to share and have us add to this page, please email info@2ecenter.org 

Episode 2: Jack Horner and Dr. Fumiko Hoeft
Aired August 19, 2020


The August episode featured Jack Horner, a renowned paleontologist whose path into academia was an atypical one. His story is an inspiration for gifted and twice-exceptional students whose own trajectories may not be following a typical path. Also appearing on the August webcast was Dr. Fumiko Hoeft, a professor of psychological sciences and director of the Brain Imaging Research Center at University of Connecticut, as well as the director of the Laboratory for Learning Engineering and Neural Systems, located at UCONN/UCSF.

AUGUST WEBCAST RESOURCES

Please find the resources that were provided in the Zoom chat box below. If there is a resource that you would like to share and have us add to this page, please email info@2ecenter.org 

Episode 1: Inaugural Episode with Dr. Gail Saltz
Aired July 1, 2020

Dr. Kaufman’s first guest on the webcast was Dr. Gail Saltz, who is a clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the New York Presbyterian Hospital—Weill-Cornell Medical College and a psychoanalyst with the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. A frequent columnist for multiple media outlets, she is the bestselling author of The Power of Different: The Link Between Disorder and Genius and the host of the podcast “Personology.” She is one of the nation’s foremost experts on a variety of psychological and mental health issues, especially those pertaining to stress and anxiety, emotional well-being, relationships, and the mental health aspects of current news.

JULY WEBCAST RESOURCES

Please find the resources that were provided in the Zoom chat box below. If there is a resource that you would like to share and have us add to this page, please email info@2ecenter.org 

Tools for Parents and Educators
Apps
The Psychology Podcast Episodes

Comments are closed.